2. What are fungi?
• Not plants, not animals
• Macrofungi and Microfungi
• Almost all plants rely on fungi
Image courtesy of Robert A. Samson.
3.
4. Symbiotic Relationship
• strong symbiotic relationship
with plants
• without fungi, there won't be
any new plant, vice versa
taken from faslanyc.blogspot.ca
5. Importance
• help plants to absorb nutrients
• increase plants' surface area
• recycle dead plant mass
6. There are six species of fungi
for every species of plant
12. Older Forest Younger Forest
One giant dead log few small logs
tree vary in sizes
trees similar in size and more
evenly distributed
less dense more dense
22. Discussion
• Laccaria Bicolor maybe the most abundant
macrofungi in coastal temperate rainforest in
August
• macrofungal ecology in different forest types
should be studied in BC
23. Improvement of survey
• choosing a true old growth forest
• better ID skills
• bigger sample size